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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nullipotent en · ADJ

Etymology

Latin roots, Latin nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent.
  2. (not-comparable) Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent

Coordinates

idempotent · pluripotent

Relateds

no-op · pluripotent · ventripotent · nullipotence · idempotent · unipotent · potent · fixed point · omnipotent · impotent · nilpotent